El Salvador’s La Esperanza prison, once controlled by gangs, has been transformed under President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown into a labor-driven model praised for reducing violence but criticized ...
El Salvador had more homicides in March than any other single month in a decade, a dark milestone that some attribute to the collapse of a gang truce and one that could mark a trend of greater ...
This story is part of a Special Report called “Far From Home,” a collaboration between the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, The GroundTruth Project, and Fusion. As seven-year-old ...
In a landmark case, three former San Salvador police officers were sentenced last month for the murder of a transgender woman. Former Salvadorian police officers Jaime Geovany Mendoza Rivas, Luis ...
The collective hum of hundreds of sewing machine needles ploughing through fabric pierces the air as the prisoners get to work. The factory floor is a sea of yellow uniforms worn by the 2,500 ...
El Salvador is one of the most violent and murderous countries in the world. And now its government has devised a truly mad plan to combat the problem—by targeting people who have tried to broker ...
A photograph authentically shows incarcerated men stripped of most clothing and tied together in CECOT, a Salvadoran prison. In April 2025, a photograph spread online claiming to show gang members ...
In recent weeks, El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, made headlines for renting out the country's mass prison to the United States. In March and April, under US President Donald Trump, the United ...
Commenting on a recent news report about the fear of Mexican drug cartel violence spreading to El Salvador, Tim writes: “If drug cartels were to establish greater operations in El Salvador, beyond the ...
(The Hill) — The wife of a Maryland man who the United States government mistakenly deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador stood in defense of her husband while acknowledging that she filed for a ...
Earlier this year, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador struck an agreement with the Trump administration to accept deported migrants and detain them in mega-prisons. The deportation flights have ...
SOYAPANGO, El Salvador — As police Inspector Alba Guevara Lopez’s officers fanned out through the narrow alleys of a gang-controlled neighborhood in this San Salvador suburb, half had their faces ...
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